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A pioneer of artificial intelligence shows how the study of
causality revolutionized science and the world.

About the Author

Judea Pearl is a world-renowned Israeli-American computer scientist
and philosopher, known for his world-leading work in AI and the
development of Bayesian networks, as well as his theory of causal
and counterfactual inference. In 2011, he won the most prestigious
award in computer science, the Alan Turing Award. He has also
received the Rumelhart Prize (Cognitive Science Society), the
Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) and the Lakatos Award
(London School of Economics), and he is the founder and president
of the Daniel Pearl Foundation.

Dana Mackenzie, a Ph.D. mathematician turned science writer, has
written for such magazines as Science, New Scientist,
and Discover.

Reviews

Have you ever wondered about the puzzles of correlation and
causation? This wonderful book has illuminating
answers and it is fun to read -- Daniel Kahneman, winner of
the Nobel Prize * author of Thinking, Fast and Slow *
If causation is not correlation, then what is it? Thanks to Judea
Pearl's epoch-making research, we now have a precise answer to this
question. If you want to understand how the world works, this
engrossing and delightful book is the place to start -- Pedro
Domingos, professor of computer science, University of Washington *
author of The Master Algorithm *
Judea Pearl has been the heart and soul of a revolution in
artificial intelligence and in computer science more broadly --
Eric Horvitz, Technical Fellow and Director, Microsoft Research
LabsPearl's accomplishments over the last 30 years have provided
the theoretical basis for progress in artificial intelligence ...
and they have redefined the term 'thinking machine' -- Vint
Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google, Inc.
Modern applications of AI, such as robotics, self-driving cars,
speech recognition, and machine translation deal with uncertainty.
Pearl has been instrumental in supplying the rationale and much
valuable technology that allow these applications to flourish --
Alfred Spector, Vice President of Research, Google, Inc.